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For 1,652 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Frost/Nixon
Lowest review score: 0 Waist Deep
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,085 out of 1652
  2. Mixed: 279 out of 1652
  3. Negative: 288 out of 1652
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  1. Three to Tango
    Puts more miles on plot that was worn out long ago.
  2. Crazy in Alabama
    Tries with intermittent success to juggle two stories.
  3. The Best Man
    A smooth, often funny, occasionally thoughtful romantic comedy.
  4. The Story of Us
    You can get all of this free on television any week, so why pay for it?
  5. Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me
    (The filmmaker) never does achieve the breakthrough with her father that she and we hoped for.
  6. The Straight Story
    The most atmospheric thing in the movie is Farnsworth's face.
  7. Fight Club
    It's visually surrealistic, acted with integrity, so brutal in spots that I averted my eyes.
  8. Random Hearts
    (Ford and Thomas) give Random Hearts muscle when the story turns flabby, spine where it sags, wings where it threatens to stay earthbound.
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  9. Superstar
    Molly Shannon's peachy-keen attitude and spunky patience win us over to the side of Mary Katherine Gallagher.
  10. Boys Don't Cry
    For a movie that ends in the profoundest depths of sadness, Boys Don't Cry contains one of the year's purest moments of joy.
  11. Happy, Texas
    If we had a story we could believe, we'd be in stitches.
  12. Plunkett & Macleane
    The whole thing seems to have been faked up for our amusement, like a circus freak show.
  13. Three Kings
    So wild an approach demands straightforward performances that don't draw attention to themselves, and that's what the actors supply.
  14. Double Jeopardy
    On a simplistic level, the movie works as a revenge fantasy...Yet anybody who thought about the movie for two minutes would have to conclude it couldn't happen.
  15. Mumford
    Kasdan ends up with an intellectually dishonest movie about intellectual dishonesty.
  16. American Beauty
    (Mendes') film debut shows he can shock not only with noise and nakedness but with subtle observations.
  17. Stigmata
    Repeated lapses in continuity and common sense.
  18. Chill Factor
    If you're the kind of person who goes to the movies primarily to watch faces melt to pulp, you won't be disappointed.
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  19. The 13th Warrior
    Just a great, empty wind machine.
  20. The Muse
    Most of the time the movie limps amiably toward its feeble conclusion.
  21. In Too Deep
    It delivers cop-genre thrills at the pace required and reminds us Omar Epps is a star in the making.
  22. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    Williamson deals mostly in cliches, as if high schoolers weren't smart enough to appreciate anything subtler.
  23. Mickey Blue Eyes
    Grant handles the slapstick humor gracefully and speaks his lines with sincerity and warmth.
  24. Bowfinger
    Amiable bundle of broad, easy laughs rather than bitingly fierce satire.
  25. The Iron Giant
    Keeps its sense of humor while dealing with serious issues.
  26. American Pie
    The story was primitive, the characters unmemorable, the direction unsophisticated, the writing cliched, the photography and music drab, the pacing uneven, the acting varying from adroitly funny to exaggerated.
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  27. After Life
    Like waves lapping quietly at a beach, After Life makes its subtle effect, as we wonder which memory we'd choose. [8 Oct 1999, p.7E]
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  28. She's All That
    The movie fails the credibility test right here. As those of us who were social rejects in high school know, the two qualities that would defeat any prom candidate are extra weight and a blotchy complexion. Laney has porcelain skin and a sveltely curvaceous figure, so she's a candidate for prom royalty. [29 Jan 1999, p.6E]
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  29. Playing by Heart
    The movie does have a heart, and Carroll plays by it. But when in doubt, he plays a safe tune we've all heard and enjoyed many a time. [22 Jan 1999, p.8E]
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  30. Mighty Joe Young
    Mighty Joe Young is based on the 1949 film of the same name, and it's nominally more aware of '90s concerns: destruction of the gorillas' habitats, illegal hunting, trade in animal body parts. On the other hand, it's no more enlightened about the intrinsic value of these clever, emotionally complex creatures. [25 Dec 1998, p.13E]
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